2953 x 5120 px | 25 x 43,3 cm | 9,8 x 17,1 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
29 luglio 2013
Ubicazione:
Norham Castle, Norham, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Altre informazioni:
Day set on Norham’s castled steep, And Tweed’s fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot’s mountains lone: The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone. The warriors on the turrets high, Moving athwart the evening sky, Seem’d forms of giant height: Their armour, as it caught the rays, Flash’d back again the western blaze, In lines of dazzling light. From Sir Walter Scott's Marmion of 1806. Norham Castle the stronghold of the Bishops of Durham on the Scottish Border once the most dangerous place in England Amongest it s famous visitors have been King Edward the first John Knox Beatrix Potter Mons Meg King James IV of Scotland Robert the Bruce. Norham is near the end of the Pennine Way Cycle route. Famous for it's part in the Scottish Wars of Independence it lost much of it's importance as a stronghold after 1513 when it fell to James IV of Scotland just before the Battle of Flodden.
